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New York Diocese of Ogdensburg Will Pay $45 Million to Sex Abuse Victims

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Champion for the Unborn in Canada, Jim Hughes, Dies at 82

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America at 250: 5 Stories of Catholics Resisting Anti-Catholicism in America

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The Culture of Death Loses One — for the Moment

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The Patrons of Catholic ‘Tech Bros’: 2 Thinkers Shaping the Catholic Response to AI

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Synodality produces harmony, Cardinal Grech tells German Catholics (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))

The Vatican newspaper published the full text of an address delivered by Cardinal Mario Grech, the secretary general of the Synod, to German Catholics gathered together for Katholikentag, a gathering held every two years.

Cardinal Grech acknowledged that his audience was awaiting from him a comment on the decisions made by Germany’s Synodal Way.

After comparing synodality to an orchestra, Cardinal Grech said that “what constitutes the distinctive nature of a synod, therefore, is not its infallibility, but rather the actual presence of Christ and His Spirit, a presence that emerges within the symphony, within the harmony among the participants.”

He added:

I am here for this very reason: to undertake with you the synodal exercise of tuning our instruments. The symphony, harmony and communion as a collective work, comes into being precisely through this continuous choice to play together, to be all tuned to the same note. Then, each instrument will interpret its own score, contributing richness and beauty to the single symphonic work.

This means having no fear of differences; rather than allowing them to become sources of conflict and opposition, we make them grounds for discernment, for mutual listening, and for a shared desire to follow the Risen One and to recognize the signs of the times.

US bishops to discuss abuse policies at June meeting (USCCB)

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the agenda of its June 10-12 meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Among other items—including the consecration of the nation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus—the bishops will discuss proposed revisions to their Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the conference’s document addressing the sexual abuse of minors.

The proposed revisions, according to the USCCB, seek to balance “care of and sensitivity to victim-survivors” with “an awareness of due-process, the rights of the accused,” while taking into account Vatican documents of recent years.

St. Moses the Black: From Violent Outlaw to Saint

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Pope offers extended public greeting to Aram I, Armenian Apostolic Church leader (CWN)

At the beginning of his general audience today in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV offered an extended public greeting to Aram I, head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia.